Funny how “early adopter” me has become “things are running fine, why change?” me. . .
I wonder if that’s a reflection of age?
I began building my own computers back in the mid-1980s, and in those days I was always tinkering, swapping video cards, adding memory, installing larger hard drives, upgrading fax/modems (remember those?). . .
I’ve had an “upgrade to Windows 11” icon sitting in the taskbar on my notebook computer for many months. OTOH, my tower computer is so old, it won’t run Windows 11.
I’m starting to itch to click that icon on my laptop. . . . At least if there’s a bit of a learning curve, I’ll still have Windows 10 on my tower, eh?
And since my tower and my laptop pretty much have all the same applications and utilities on them, if something breaks, I’ll know what else needs upgrading before going Win11 on a slightly newer refurbished tower computer that I’ve never used yet.
A chilly stroll at Fraser Foreshore Park in Burnaby, BC, today.
A Great Blue Heron patiently let me take over a hundred shots from a few meters away, American Robins were eating berries, and there were several House Finches. There was also a variety of ducks in the pond, will get to those photos later. . .
Had my best spawner patrol of the year so far on Byrne Creek, with a total of 6 live Coho and 1 live Chum salmon. I also processed (species, sex, length, spawning status) 5 dead Coho and 1 dead Chum.
I also got to watch a pair of Coho spawning. They tend to by shy, and I don’t get to see this that often!
Some photos and a video:
Chum
Coho
Four Coho and a Chum ready for processing
Coho
Coho at the gate in the sediment trap
Video of Coho spawning in the lower ravine:
NOTE: Volunteer Streamkeepers have training and permission to monitor spawning salmon, and to process them after they die. We cut carcasses in half after we’ve gathered the data so that we know they’ve been assessed, and return them to the stream to provide nutrients to the ecosystem.
OMG. . . This is likely one of the earliest photos that I shot, developed the film, and printed and mounted the photo.
Just found it spilling out of a storage box in my office.
Circa 1970. Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York.
This was while my late Mom was doing graduate work at Columbia, and my late Dad was doing his psychiatry residency at Bronx State Hospital.
I remember several faces in this photo. It was an experimental “free school” where kids pretty much ran rampant.
I got leave to spend hours in the school darkroom to learn photography, and I’d also beg my teachers to let me go explore the gorgeous libraries at Columbia.
I love libraries and librarians to this day. The research staff at Columbia libraries were wonderful with an early teen who absorbed text and info at a prodigious rate .
We ordered textbooks from Canada so that my sister and I wouldn’t be behind when we returned to public school after a couple of years.
I had a good walk around Deer Lake in Burnaby, BC, this morning. There were flocks of munching American Robins, a few Ruby-crowned Kinglets, some Northern Flickers, and a Steller’s Jay.
American Robin
I took over a hundred shots of this flitty Ruby-crowned Kinglet and this was the best I could get of the ruby today. : – )
While we were patrolling for salmon spawning in Byrne Creek today, I noticed a couple of Ruby-crowned Kinglets flitting around the fence in the spawning habitat.
